Inside Todays Bytes:
•More Google Woes... Cal State Senator Moves to Block GMail
•WUSB to Kill Off BlueTooth by 2006?
•Wireless firms bill clients $937 million for "federal recovery fees"
•Music sales strong despite digital piracy
•China says it is the world's largest victim of CD piracy
•Cisco Fires Back at Hacking Tool
•iPod Mini Getting Static
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•WUSB to Kill Off BlueTooth by 2006?:
If Intel has its way, Bluetooth will be a dead technology by the end of 2005. Intel’s pushing hard for a new wireless USB standard, called WUSB. WUSB is being set up as a counterpart to 802.11, handling the device to device transfers WiFi doesn’t cover; like the movement of audio and video files between PCs and cameras, MP3 players and the like, and will have data transfer rates of 480 megabits per second at a range of 2 meters. Bluetooth delivers 12 megabits per second.
•Wireless Services Now Represent 25% of U.S. Corporate Telecom Spending:
As U.S. enterprises increasingly adopt wireless voice and data environments, their wireless spending is taking an increasingly large bite of their total telecom budget. U.S. enterprises say 25 percent of their telecom budget is spent on wireless, but decentralized account management is hindering businesses' ability to accurately assess wireless expenses, according to a new Yankee Group study.
•McDonalds Picks Provider for McWireless:
Wayport, based in Austin, Texas, has won a contract to become the sole provider of wireless Internet access in thousands of McDonald's restaurants. Under the agreement, Wayport plans to offer Wi-Fi service in as many as 3,000 McDonald's restaurants by the end of the year, charging $2.95 for two hours of access.
•Music sales strong despite digital piracy:
On-line file-sharing and other digital piracy persist, but a gradual turnaround in U.S. music sales that began last fall picked up in the first quarter of this year, resulting in the industry's best domestic sales in years. Overall U.S. music sales — CDs, legal downloads, DVDs, etc. — rose 9.1 per cent in the first three months of the year over the same period in 2003.
•China says it is the world's largest victim of CD piracy:
China, which is often criticized for intellectual property infringement on a grand scale, says it is in fact the world's main victim of CD piracy. Hundreds of millions of fake CDs enter the country across its porous borders, winding up in Chinese shops and hurting its reputation abroad, according to the spokesman of the Chinese National Copyright Administration.
•Verizon's Got You Covered by Broadband... or They Will by 2005:
By the end of 2005, courtesy of Verizon Wireless, you should be able to wirelessly connect a laptop, PDA or cellphone to the Internet at broadband speeds from almost any location in every major U.S. metropolitan area. This not hotspot coverage. Called BroadBand Access and based on the cellphone technology called EV-DO, it will provide true wireless high-speed Internet service that you can use just about anywhere, even on the street or in a car.
•Cell Phone Chill Pill:
University of Wisconsin researchers say they have developed a "chill pill" to help cool down overheated cell phones and improve signal quality while using less battery power. The research team rearranged the energy cells within a power amplifier so that any heat produced dissipates uniformly, rather than moving toward the center. The rearrangement reduces the overall temperature, which enhances overall performance.
•Build a better SpamKiller:
Network Associates announced that the latest update to SpamKiller adds pattern recognition based on Bayesian principles. Pattern recognition techniques allow products to learn from past examples, helping them to formulate a way of classifying messages as "spam" or "legitimate." The security company plans to use the technology as one measure of how likely it is that a particular e-mail message is spam.
•iPod Mini Getting Static:
Apple Computer said late Monday that it is looking into some users' complaints of sound problems with the iPod Mini. Complaints ranging from crackling sound to interrupted play have been making the rounds on Apple enthusiast sites.
•Hotspots an Easy Hack:
Wireless networks aren't just popular with computer users on the go. Hackers are finding them an easy target to snoop on consumers' laptop PCs and, eventually, their employers' networks. Many hot spots do not require passwords. That lets anyone with a wireless connection and hacking know-how to hop aboard the network and filch business files, credit card numbers and other confidential information.
•Intel: We'll Just Make Wireless Networks Safe From Hackers:
The next generation of Intel microprocessors for cellphones and handheld computers will, for the first time, include hard-wired security features that can enforce copy protection and help prevent hackers from wreaking havoc on wireless networks. Intel's PXA27x processors, announced yesterday at a conference in Taiwan, contain a security 'engine' that is on the same piece of silicon but separated from the area where general processing takes place. The 'engine' also has access to secure memory.
•Wireless firms bill clients $937 million for "federal recovery fees":
The National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates filed a petition with the FCC demanding the FCC to take a more active role in regulating misleading line item charges on monthly wireless bills. At issue are so-called "federal recovery fees" which are used primarily to pay for costs associated with allowing customers to change providers while keeping their phone numbers. But wireless companies have used the line item to cover all manner of expenses, including marketing and advertising costs.
•Cisco Fires Back at Hacking Tool:
Cisco Systems has announced the availability of Extensible Authentication Protocol-Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling (EAP-FAST) for users who want to use an 802.1X EAP type that needs no digital certificates and is safe from dictionary attacks. The company was responding to the release last week of a tool which can be used to exploit weaknesses in the Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) used in Cisco wireless devices.
•Cal State Senator Moves to Block Google's GMail:
California state Senator Liz Figueroa says she is drafting legislation to block Google Inc.'s free e-mail service "Gmail" because it would place advertising in personal messages after searching them for key words. This comes in addition to European groups recently lodging a complaint with UK authorities, charging that Gmail may violate Europe's privacy laws because it stores messages where users cannot permanently delete them.

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